§ Mr. WHITWELL WILSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he can state the number of assistant clerks and of boy clerks actually employed in the Civil Service Departments on 1st July, 1908; and the number of assistant clerks and of boy 1555W clerks who have been employed as a result of the scheme recently adopted for these grades?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe number of assistant clerks employed in public Departments on the date mentioned was approximately 1,830. Since that date arrangements have been made with various public Departments for the substitution of one hundred additional assistant clerkships for 145 boy clerkships to be abolished. Effect is being given to this arrangement gradually as opportunity occurs.